CAUSE OF ACTION v. NAT'L ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMIN.

No. 13-5127.

753 F.3d 210 (2014)

CAUSE OF ACTION, Appellant v. NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided May 23, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Epstein and Marie A. Connelly argued the cause for appellant. On the brief were Patrick J. Massari and Reed D. Rubinstein.

Christine N. Kohl , Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause for appellee. With her on the brief were Stuart F. Delery , Assistant Attorney General, Ronald C. Machen Jr. , U.S. Attorney, and Leonard Schaitman , Attorney. Edward Himmelfarb , Attorney, entered an appearance.

Kerry W. Kircher , General Counsel, William Pittard , Deputy General Counsel, Christine M. Davenport , Senior Assistant Counsel, and Todd B. Tatelman , Mary Beth Walker , and Eleni M. Roumel , Assistant Counsel, were on the brief for amicus curiae Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the United States House of Representatives.

Before: HENDERSON and KAVANAUGH, Circuit Judges, and RANDOLPH, Senior Circuit Judge.


RANDOLPH, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the district court dismissing a complaint brought under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552. The complaint sought, from the National Archives, records of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, a legislative branch agency charged with investigating "the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States." Fraud Enforcement and Recovery...

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